Truth Is Concrete Reading Room Guide

A guide for the Salon reading room 21- 27th September

Who authors this space?
THBTP GUIDE TO READINGS
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For each salon that we establish, we present a collection texts.
Here we introduce our biggest reading list to date with a pinch
of salt. Looking at the book shelves in this salon we begin with
some questions, who are all these authors and philosophers
who understand the world as it was, or as it is now, a world both
you and I inhabit?
“It may be argued that place-takers and thesis-makers
are the movers of history but this begs the question: what
is the movement they make? To be sure, space may be
traversed but the movement here comes down to a series
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History isn’t purely intervals of events, with nothing happening
between one queen’s beheading and the next, between a
revolution and a counter revolution. In the clamorous coming
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South, every barbershop had its quartet […] Someone would start a tune,
they are waved high so that we might keep moving?45,65,67
maybe even the barber himself, and two or three customers might join in,
Take for instance Rousseau; we turn to him to mark the ideals not singing the melody, but vocalizing tones that harmonized. When a
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almost or completely forgotten words, gestures or friendships
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that stitch the fabric of such and such an event.
For us, what takes place in this hair salon, between your words
Perhaps, as liberal theory would idealise, in this salon we can be and our scissors, between trust and friendship, are ideas and
rational, social beings who, gifted with content and the space relationships that form the very grains of the shifting sands of
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According to this logic, today we need only to glance at an RSS
feed and re-Tweet to take part. Radical Democracy?
Almost a hundred years ago Dada appeared in Europe.10,11
In the context of the First World War, this avant guard raged
against the rational, bourgeoisie man (this civilised French
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to hope that it will become one?1,25,68
Perhaps we choose not to be rational or reasonable. Instead we
could choose to cry, or laugh or simply to chat shit together.
The word aesthetics, from the Greek meaning to feel.
The books assembled in this salon have primarily been donated by the
three radical publishers mentioned below, to whom we are grateful.
Some books found here, or not mentioned in this guide, come from
our own collections, other donations or have found their way here as
liberated commodities.
Verso: Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing
house in the English-speaking world, publishing eighty books a year.
Semiotext(e): Best known for its introduction of French theory to
American readers, Semiotext(e) has been one of America’s most
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PM Press: PM Press was founded at the end of 2007 by a small
collection of folks with decades of publishing, media, and organizing
experience. PM Press co-conspirators have published and distributed
hundreds of books, pamphlets, CDs, and DVDs.
1
Giorgio Agamben Means Without End
2000 University of Minnesota
2Amy Allen ed. Democracy In What
State? 2009 Columbia University Press
3
Benedict Anderson Imagined
Communities 2006 Verso
4
Giovanni Arrighi Terence K. Hopkins
and Immanuel Wallerstein Anti-‐Systemic
Movements 1989 Verso
5
Escalate Collective SALT 2012
6
Etienne Balibar and Immanuel
Wallerstein Race, Nation, Class
Ambiguous Identities 1991 Verso
7
Etienne Balibar Politics and the Other
Scene 2002 Verso
8Jean Baudrillard Utopia Deferred 2006
Semiotext(e)
9JaapJan Berg ed. Houses of
Transformation 2009 NAi Publishers
10
Elsa & Peter Bethanis Dada &
Surrealism 2006 For Beginners
11Claire Bishop Artificial Hells 2012 Verso
12Ryann Bosetti Regarding Head Shape:
Acknowledgment Of The Haircut As Form
Publication Studio
13Craig Buckley and Jean-‐Louis Violeau
ed. Utopie: Texts and Projects 1967–
1978 2011 Semiotext(e)
14
Paul Buhle Robin Hood: People’s Outlaw
and Forest Hero, A Graphic Guide 2011
PM Press
15
Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak Girls
Are Not Chicks Coloring Book 2009 PM
Press / Reach and Teach
16Jacinta Bunnell and Nathaniel Kusinitz
Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with
Another Spoon Coloring Book 2010 PM
Press
17Franco La Cecla Against Architecture
2008 PM Press
18Noam Chomsky Occupy 2012 Penguin
Press
19Christina Christoforou Whose Hair?
2011 Laurence King
20Pierre Clastres Archeology of Violence
New Edition 2010 Semiotext(e)
21Guy Debord Correspondence 2008
Semiotext(e)
22Gilles Deleuze Desert Islands and Other
Texts (1953-‐1974) 2003 Semiotext(e)
23Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Zizek ed.
The Idea of Communism 2010 Verso
24Karrie Fransman The House That
Groaned 2012 Square Peg
25Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan Les
Sentiers de L’Utopie 2011 Zones
26Lindsey German and John Rees A
People’s History of London 2012 Verso
27
André Gorz Critique of Economic Reason
2011 Verso
28Stephen Graham Cities Under Siege
2010 Verso
29Félix Guattari and Suely Rolnik Molecular
Revolution in Brazil 2008 Semiotext(e)
30Gilda Haas, Tomas Benitez and
Carol Wells ed. We Shall Not Be
Moved: Posters and the Fight Against
Displacement in L.A.’s Figueroa Corridor
2008 PM Press/SAJE
31Jurgan Habermas, The Structural
Transformation of the Public Sphere:
An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois
Society 1991 MIT Press
32David Harvey Rebel Cities 2012 Verso
33Dan Hind The Return Of The Public 2012
Verso
34The Invisible Committee The Coming
Insurrection 2009 Semiotext(e)
35Norman M. Klein The History of
Forgetting 2008 Verso
36
Chris Kraus and Sylvère Lotringer ed.
Hatred of Capitalism A Semiotext(e)
Reader 2001 Semiotext(e)
37Chris Kraus Where Art Belongs 2011
Semiotext(e)
38Pierre Kropotkine La Commune 2008
L’Altiplano
39Henri Lefebvre Introduction to Modernity
2011 Verso
40Peter Linebaugh Ned Ludd & Queen
Mab: Machine-‐Breaking, Romanticism,
and the Several Commons of 1811-‐12
2012 PM Press / Retort
41
Prosper-‐Olivier Lissagaray History of the
Paris Commune of 1871 2012 Verso
42Yve Lomax Sounding the Event 2005 I.B
Tauris
43Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi
ed. Autonomia. 2007 Semiotext(e)
44Sylvère Lotringer ed. The German Issue
2009 Semiotext(e)
45Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic
Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations
on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical
History 2008 PM Press
46
Giacomo Marramao The Passage West
2012 Verso
47James Marriot and Mika Minio-‐Paluello
The Oil Road 2012 Verso
48
Tom McDonough The Situationists and
the City 2009 Verso
49Farquhar McHarg Pistoleros!: The
Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg -‐ I: 1918
2011 PM Press / Christie Books
50Cindy Milstein and Erik Ruin Paths
toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of
Everyday Anarchism 2012 PM Press
thehaircutbeforetheparty.net
51
Ben Morea and Ron Hahne Black Mask
& Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker: The
Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben
Morea, and the Black Mask Group 2011
PM Press
52Laura Oldfield Ford Savage Messiah
2011 Verso
53Prole.info The Housing Monster 2012 PM
Press
54Queen of the Neighbourhood
Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils
2010 PM Press
55Jacques Rancière Proletarian Nights: The
Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-‐Century
France 2012 Verso
56Jacques Rancière The Emancipated
Spectator 2009 Verso
57David Rattray How I Became One of the
Invisible 1992 Semiotext(e)
58Gerald Raunig Art and Revolution 2007
Semiotext(e)
59
Lukasz Rondula Alex Farquharson and
Barbara Piwowarska ed. Star City 2010
MAMMAL Foundation
60Kristin Ross The Emergence of Social
Space 2008 Verso
61Jean-‐Jacques Rousseau The Social
Contract 1968 Penguin Books
62Peter Sloterdijk Bubbles Spheres Volume
I: Microspherology 2011 Semiotext(e)
63
Michael Sorkin All Over The Map 2011
Verso
64Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing The
Journey to Tahrir 2012 Verso
65Charles J. Stivale Gilles Deleuze, Key
Concepts 2011 ACUMEN
66
Erik Swyngedouw Civic City Cahier 5:
Designing the Post-‐Political City and the
Insurgent Polis 2011 Bedford Press
67Astra Taylor, Keith Cessen and n+1
Occupy! 2011 Verso
68Dianna Taylor ed. Foucault, Key Concepts
2011 ACUMEN
69Tiqqun Preliminary Materials for a Theory
of the Young-‐Girl 2012 Semiotext(e)
70
Tiqqun This Is Not A Program 2011
Semiotext(e)
71Paul Virilio Lost Dimension 1991
Semiotext(e)
72
Teun Voeten Tunnel People 2010 PM
Press
73McKenzie Wark The Beach Beneath the
Street 2011 Verso
74Eyal Weizman The Least Of All Possible
Evils 2011 Verso
75Ellen Meilsins Wood Liberty and Property
2012 Verso